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A Serendipitous XMM-Newton Observation of the Intermediate Polar WX Pyx
We briefly describe a serendipitous observation of the little-studied
intermediate polar WX Pyx using XMM-Newton. The X-ray spin period is 1557.3
sec, confirming the optical period published in 1996. An orbital period of
approximately 5.54 hr is inferred from the separation of the spin-orbit
sidelobe components. The soft and hard band spin-folded light curves are nearly
sinusoidal in shape. The best-fit spectrum is consistent with a bremsstrahlung
temperature of about 18 keV. An upper limit of approximately 300 eV is assigned
to the presence of Fe line emission. WX Pyx lies near TX and TV Col in the
P_spin-P_orb plane.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figs; accepted A&A 2004 Dec
A Hardware Implementation of Artificial Neural Network Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays
An artificial neural network algorithm is implemented using a field
programmable gate array hardware. One hidden layer is used in the feed-forward
neural network structure in order to discriminate one class of patterns from
the other class in real time. With five 8-bit input patterns, six hidden nodes,
and one 8-bit output, the implemented hardware neural network makes decision on
a set of input patterns in 11 clocks and the result is identical to what to
expect from off-line computation. This implementation may be used in level 1
hardware triggers in high energy physics experimentsComment: 13 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instr. Meth.
Field-free two-direction alignment alternation of linear molecules by elliptic laser pulses
We show that a linear molecule subjected to a short specific elliptically
polarized laser field yields postpulse revivals exhibiting alignment
alternatively located along the orthogonal axis and the major axis of the
ellipse. The effect is experimentally demonstrated by measuring the optical
Kerr effect along two different axes. The conditions ensuring an optimal
field-free alternation of high alignments along both directions are derived.Comment: 5 pages, 4 color figure
On the work distribution for the adiabatic compression of a dilute classical gas
We consider the adiabatic and quasi-static compression of a dilute classical
gas, confined in a piston and initially equilibrated with a heat bath. We find
that the work performed during this process is described statistically by a
gamma distribution. We use this result to show that the model satisfies the
non-equilibrium work and fluctuation theorems, but not the
flucutation-dissipation relation. We discuss the rare but dominant realizations
that contribute most to the exponential average of the work, and relate our
results to potentially universal work distributions.Comment: 4 page
Non-analytic microscopic phase transitions and temperature oscillations in the microcanonical ensemble: An exactly solvable 1d-model for evaporation
We calculate exactly both the microcanonical and canonical thermodynamic
functions (TDFs) for a one-dimensional model system with piecewise constant
Lennard-Jones type pair interactions. In the case of an isolated -particle
system, the microcanonical TDFs exhibit (N-1) singular (non-analytic)
microscopic phase transitions of the formal order N/2, separating N
energetically different evaporation (dissociation) states. In a suitably
designed evaporation experiment, these types of phase transitions should
manifest themselves in the form of pressure and temperature oscillations,
indicating cooling by evaporation. In the presence of a heat bath (thermostat),
such oscillations are absent, but the canonical heat capacity shows a
characteristic peak, indicating the temperature-induced dissociation of the
one-dimensional chain. The distribution of complex zeros (DOZ) of the canonical
partition may be used to identify different degrees of dissociation in the
canonical ensemble.Comment: version accepted for publication in PRE, minor additions in the text,
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Adiabatic invariance with first integrals of motion
The construction of a microthermodynamic formalism for isolated systems based
on the concept of adiabatic invariance is an old but seldom appreciated effort
in the literature, dating back at least to P. Hertz [Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 33,
225 (1910)]. An apparently independent extension of such formalism for systems
bearing additional first integrals of motion was recently proposed by Hans H.
Rugh [Phys. Rev. E 64, 055101 (2001)], establishing the concept of adiabatic
invariance even in such singular cases. After some remarks in connection with
the formalism pioneered by Hertz, it will be suggested that such an extension
can incidentally explain the success of a dynamical method for computing the
entropy of classical interacting fluids, at least in some potential
applications where the presence of additional first integrals cannot be
ignored.Comment: 2 pages, no figures (REVTeX 4
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